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North Pemberton: two weeks to a temporary depot
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After the wooden station burned, residents sought a more substantial replacement for a depot serving farms and woodland industries.
The interrupted station
The 1977 National Register nomination dates the first station’s public opening to January 5, 1863. Fire destroyed it on November 1, 1891. A temporary depot followed within two weeks, but local residents wanted something more substantial; the surviving building opened in October 1892, built by John S. Rogers of Moorestown.
What passed through it
The nomination lists agricultural produce, marl, sand, lumber and charcoal among outbound goods, and later identifies soldiers traveling to and from Fort Dix. Its architectural survey records a small freight platform and a projecting ticket-office bay: different kinds of traffic shared one rural facility. National Register nomination, sections 7–8.
Sources and research limits
The nomination is a 1977 historical reconstruction, not a contemporary fire report. It supports the rebuilding sequence but gives no fire cause, freight totals or individual worker testimony.